Discovery phase

A thorough discovery phase in software development is critical to building a sturdy project foundation. The discovery phase delivered by Zade is a driving project kick-off stage and a trusty tool for discovering tech feasibility, outlining key goals, and planning out milestones of the project.

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For whom

We are Zade, a Digital Agency. Proud to be a long-term partner of worldwide digital-first companies, honest work relationships.

Startups
founders

Mid-Size
Business

Tech and
design teams

Why do you need discovery phase?

Identify the project’s scope

The discovery phase of a project enables us to explore the intricacies of your business needs, put ambitious product ideas to the test, and translate your vision into driving business value. We do this through in-depth research, segmented analysis of requirements, and resulting easy-to-follow project roadmaps.

Make decisions based on data, not assumptions

We do A LOT of analytics across all project aspects, exploring its market niche, competitors, or target audience to give you invaluable business-pushing data. Data-driven decisions made based on the thoroughly researched, high-quality data help to better target the TA, nourish the demand, and boost sales.

Avoid the need to make costly changes

A wide range of the discovery phase deliverables that you get with our services outline your project’s ins and outs and help you build a comprehensive roadmap of the underlying workflow. As a result, you keep things well-structured and planned, avoiding costly reworks and unexpected changes in the project life cycle.

How we work with your startup product

Discovery phase

1 week

Setting up a solution discovery team with relevant experience
Analyzing the client’s high-level requirements and business needs
Planning the agenda

PoC/ MVP dev

6 weeks

Discussing business goals, needs & product vision
Defining user personas
Scoping out PoC/MVP features
Sketching out low-fidelity wireframes

Project launch

1 week

Analyzing all information provided by the client
Conducting market research
Finding the best solutions to business problems
Documenting user stories, user flows, architecture diagrams, and UI/UX wireframes

Further dev

Ongoing

Summarizing research and holding a demo meeting
Reviewing collaboration models and sending a proposal
Getting ready to start the development phase

Discovery phase deliverables

Technical feasibility validation

Our specialized tech experts dive into the specifications of your project and validate whether the budget and technologies in hand are feasible enough to achieve particular goals.

Project plan

In-depth analytics, preliminary research, and all-around project estimates allow us to compose efficient project plans that can be used and reused for all project SDLC stages.

Solution architecture and tech stack

At Zade, we always believe in honoring commitments and helping you reach your goal by compensating 50 percent of your education expenses.

User journey

We compose user stories, implement user journey wireframes, and deliver clickable interface prototypes to help achieve the on-point, tailored user experience.

Cost proposal and timeline

The project discovery phase sheds light on all the underlying project tasks and conditions, in terms of which we provide time estimates and cost proposals to speed up the SDLC.

Discovery phase steps

Zade is a top-leading digital agency from Ukraine where we focus on your time and our quality. Our goal is to put years’ worth of expertise and experience into your business consistency and success. We do that through the well-adjusted discovery phase workflow that gets your tasks done in 1-4 weeks based on the following stages.

Discovery preparation

First off, we set up a project-tailored discovery team where project managers and business analysts join forces to analyze high-level requirements and business needs to plan out further workflow.

Discovery workshops

Technical specialists join in to help research the product vision, goals, and needs, define user personas, scope out relevant PoC/MVP features, sketch out low-fidelity wireframes, and validate tech requirements to provide the future solution’s architecture draft and the fitting tech stack.

Research & analysis

Even more studies and analyses are conducted based on the previous stage’s deliverables, including the market research, business optimization, user flows and UI/UX wireframes provided by UI/UX designers, and detailed estimates of costs and timelines.

Deliverables & reports

All the discoveries are sealed inside a complete summary of the research and a live demonstration of deliverables, after which you are free to put the report to work and use it to move on to the next phases of project development.

Deliverables

Technical validation

We as a company strive to become a better version of ourselves and will assist you in doing the same.

Project plan

We as a company strive to become a better version of ourselves and will assist you in doing the same.

Solution architecture

We as a company strive to become a better version of ourselves and will assist you in doing the same.

Cost and timeline

We as a company strive to become a better version of ourselves and will assist you in doing the same.

Malik Alimoehamedov,

Co-founder Zvook

"At Zade, I found everything I was looking for and even more: a professional and fun team with which I am always on the same page, colleagues openness, friendliness, loyalty from managers, and a design environment where you want to create great products and develop professionally."